ARTEXPRESS at The Margaret Whitlam Galleries within The Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus.

This exhibition is part of the 2012 ARTEXPRESS Exhibition selected from HSC examination in visual Arts, artmaking component in 2012 in which 9775 works were submitted from schools across , From these a range of high standard and diverse works were chosen to form the 2012 ARTEXPRESS Exhibition, which is held in various venues in and around the metropolitan and Regional areas.

The University of Western Sydney is a supporting sponsor and together with ARTEXPRESS have curated this exhibition. It showcases exemplary artworks created by students for the art making component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts . These works represent a broad range of subject matter, approaches, styles and media including painting, photo media, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, documented forms, textiles and fibre, ceramics, time-based forms and collection of works. This exhibition is being held at The Margaret Whitlam Galleries on the Parramatta Campus of UWS, within the newly restored and refurbished Female Orphan School and is presented by the NSW Department of Education and Communities, the Board of Studies NSW and University of Western Sydney.

Further information: The Female Orphan School http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/Female-Orphan-School

ARTEXPRESS http://artexpress.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/

Stage 5 and 6 syllabus can be obtained from The Board of studies website below.http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/visual-arts-st6-syl-from2010.pdf

Expressive form.

Documented An individual work or series of works documenting time-based Forms events, happenings, performances and site-specific installations.

Collection of A collection or series of works made using different expressive Works forms.

Drawing An individual work or series of works with a focus on drawing.

Painting An individual work or series of works with a focus on painting.

Photomedia An individual work or series of works in black and white and/or colour made using wet (darkroom) and/or digital practices.

Printmaking An individual work or series of works with a focus on printmaking.

Textiles and Fibre An individual work or series of works with a focus on textiles and fibre.

Graphic Design An individual work or series of works with a focus on graphic design.

Designed Objects An individual work or series of works with a focus on 3D object design. This expressive form includes wearables, jewellery, architectural design and product design.

Sculpture An individual work or series of works with a focus on sculpture.

Ceramics An individual work or series of works with a focus on ceramics.

Time-based forms An individual work or series of works with a focus on time-based forms. This expressive form includes film and video, digital animation and/or interactives.

Expressive Forms represented at The Margaret Whitlam Galleries

Painting

Rachel Christine Greig, Gravitas/Gravity:Tactile Expression , Penrith High School.

Aaryn Melzer, While you were sleeping , Trinity Catholic College, Lismore.

Sophie Lyle Sherring, Adoration, Hurlstone Agricultural High School.

Tanya Joanne Fenwick, Herbert, Covenent Christian School.

Angela Zhang, Are we sitting too comfortably, North .

Jason Zhao, Collect them all, .

Lingzi Gao, Brush with the bus, Baulkham Hills High School.

Alexander Litchfield, Industrial Twilight, Lithgow High School.

Eleanor Ruth Lawless, Dog Days, Oxley College.

Anna Kate Baker, Everlasting, .

Collection of Works

Sarah Douglas, Nepalese Prayer, Oxford Falls Grammar School.

Laila (Laily) Gafori, A life that changes lives, Macarthur Girls High School.

Alice Victoria Wade, Lysdexia is Puzzleing, Barker College.

Lisa Koesterke, A Collection of Postcards from Wits End, Mullumbimby High School.

Michael John Ferris, Domino, The Kings School.

Rebecca O’Callaghan, My Heart Wanders, St Joseph’s Hastings Regional College.

Georgia Sugarman, Time Overpass, The McDonalds College.

Honey Anna Long, Tapestry, SCEGGS Darlinghurst.

Isabelle Teo, The Ghost of Earth, Tempe High School.

Drawing

Anita Ye, Thick Skinned, James Ruse Agricultural High School.

Acacia Josephine Peterson, Grandma, Sapphire Coast Anglican College.

Hyerin Kyra Kim, She has eyes bright enough to burn, St George High School.

Chelsea Booth, Best Before, St Catherine’s Waverley.

Mark Rodger Pickstone, Smart Parking, St Clair High School.

Nitida Violet Atkinson, Pa Remembers When É, .

Drianne Deang, Family, Marian Catholic College Kenthurst.

Adele Lauren McMurray, What happened to Black and White, Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College.

Claire Middleton, The Fight for Flight, Kuring-gai Creative Arts High School.

Graphic Design

Joseph Chan-Lui, Missing, .

Fabian Riviera, Create Your Own Masterpiece, Marist College Eastwood.

Sculpture

Shaun Ross, Geometric Duality, Penrith High School.

Holly Payne, The Domicile of invisible processes, Monte Saint Angelo Mercy College.

Mitchell Keating- Follas, Troubled waters, The Scots College.

Jarren Christensen, Thinking of Cole, St Marys Cathedral College.

Matthew Michael Nicholl, Untitled, St Patrick’s College Strathfield.

Alana Zammit, The Impossibility of Regularity, Bossley Park High.

Bridget Olivia Whiteway, Tre Em Bi Mat (The Lost Children) Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart.

Ceramics

Rory Macken, The Aesthetics of Industry: Ecology: environment, Endurance, St Aloysius Milson Point.

Documented Forms

Emily Schellnack, Miyagan, Erskine Park High School.

James William Byers, Adaptation: Emerging Hybrid Forms, Knox Grammar School.

Printmaking

Allen Shuo Lun Huang, Construction Site 1989 North Sydney Boys High School.

Kate Pozoglou, Cirque De Freak, Caroline Chisholm College.

Gabriella Shofer, Zen, Masada College.

Textile and Fibre

Alicia Dulnuan-Demou, The past is familiar, the future is not, Our Lady Sacred Heart (K)

Time based

Joshua Luke Hannah, I am 21853763, .

Bryce Beard, Revolution of Evolution, Mackillop Senior College.

Photomedia

Adam Christodoulous, Memory- Master, Concord High School.

Kristy Rose Holyman, Can I have one of everything, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of The Sacred Heart.

George Daud, After Maplethorpe, O’Keefe, Western, Maguire etc, .

Gabriel Aloisio, Losing Humanity, John Therry Catholic High School.

Emma Elizabeth O’Donoghue, Accelerando (Traces of Cultural History), Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of The Sacret Heart.

Zac Rae, Chaotic Gravitation, St Edwards Christian Brothers College.

Chloe Ann Roberts, Fade to Black, .

Courtney Hansford, Polychrome: Metaphors and Smiles,.

Work sheet: 1: Class discussion and research.

Framework of an exhibition: Investigation of The Conceptual Framework and its functions: artist, artwork, world and audience.

Development and organisation

*What is the purpose of the exhibition?

*In what way does the selection of work reflect the focus of the exhibition?

*What agencies are involved in developing and organising this exhibition?

*Describe the process required to development such an exhibition?

Funding Format and Focus *How has this exhibition been funded? *In what way could funding What is the format of the * influence selection or presentation exhibition: solo, collective, theme of this exhibition? or idea, period or style?

*Can the sponsers support be *Explain the rationale for this identified in the exhibition? exhibition.

Exhibition

Name/Title of the Exhibition Venue and Location Dates Artist(s) represented Expressive forms

Work sheet 2: Students select 2-3 works in the exhibition that view through the Cultural frame and complete the worksheet.

Exploring the Cultural frame: investigating identity through social and cultural meaning.

How has this artist communicated their Has this artist used cultural identity or ideas as subject matter? social comment?

* direct representation *Cultural: the artist uses their personal history to construct meaning. *Text

*multi layering *Social comment: the artist uses social,

economic or political ideas to construct meaning.

Annotation: The identification of of an artwork Artist Title and date Medium size

Has this artist used a particular time or place as identity in there work Using the Cultural frame structure, list the elements you can see in each of your selected artwork

* Political event *Historical event such as: culture groups, Gender, political identity, time, place.

Works sheet 3: Students select 2-3 works in the exhibition that view through the Structural frame and complete the worksheet.

Exploring the Structural frame: The structural world arises from systems of signs and symbols sharing the universal structure of language.

In what way is this artist Construct a list of materials and communicating ideas and meaning methods the artist has used to engage through signs, symbols and images? the audience

*The selection of materials used * placement of specific items. * visual codes *formal elements used in an organised way.

Annotation:The identification of an artwork

Artist title and date Medium size

Discuss how this artist used their art If investigating an artwork through the history knowledge to inform and act Structural frame, we examine the artist withinn their practice. intention to construct a work on conventional elements and ideas.

What visual qualities has the artist used to engage the audience?

Worksheet 4: Students select 2-3 works in the exhibition that view through the Subjective frame and complete the worksheet.

Exploring the Subjective frame: the subjective world is concerned with individual feeling, emotion, imagination and personal experience.

If the artist is using feelings and emotions to Artists who explore there feelings through art express his ideas explain how he has executed this often use imagination, dreams or the as subject matter in the artwork? subconscious. In what way has the artist convayed there ideas? Does this artist express their personal feelings or * Surreal Is this artist expressing human feelings in general ? * Supernatural * Dream like

Annotation : The identification of an artwork

Artist Title and date medium size

In what way has this artist responded to their In responding to your feelings and emotions when ideas and concepts: are they spontaneous or viewing this artwork, describe how individual expressive actions? artworks make you feel.

* The use of materials is in a spontaneous or * Shock expressive representation as opposed to planned or in a careful way. * Surprise * Sad * Happy

Work sheet 5: Students select 2-3 works in the exhibition that view through the Postmodern frame and complete the worksheet.

Exploring the Postmodern frame: The Postmodern world brings challenge/doubt/suspicion/scepticism to the assumptions of each of the other frames.

Markers or identifers for postmodern work can be The use of new technology is associated with The Postmodern artist, as is the new idea of * The use of non-traditional technologies, the gallery. materials or traditional techniques

* Parady If the white cube is the traditional gallery, * Questioning tradtional art/ art history what is the avante guard gallery of the *appropriation Postmodern artist?

Expain your chosen artwork/s ideas/concepts through the Postmodern frame?

Annotation : The identification of an artwork

Artist Artwork and date Medium size

Compare and contrast the traditional gallery to Many Postmodern artist incorporate ideas and the Postmodern Gallery ? actions from other artist, reinterpreting the original idea (appropriation). * AGNSW * WWW. Expain how this has been achieved?

Why would an artist do this?